Patric Gagne is your typical Los Angeles middle-class suburbanite- she is a wife and mother of two who, on the outside, appears to be a caring, kind person to all she meets.

There's just one problem: she's a sociopath.

At 48 years old, she still doesn't experience the normal emotions people feel when they look at their newborn child or meet the love of their life.

When her baby was born, she wasn't overcome with love for her child, she didn't have 'romantic, flowery emotions' when she met her husband and still just thinks of her first-born as just 'a great kid.' 

Her lack of empathy in her youth led her down a path of crime, not because she wanted to steal, but because that act fulfilled the void left by her 'absence of social emotions like shame and empathy,' Gagne wrote.

Gagne described her experiences in a personal article in The Wall Street Journal, saying her earliest memories of exhibiting sociopathic behavior was in kindergarten when she noticed that she didn't show the same emotions as other children.

She didn't experience guilt when she lied or compassion or empathy when a fellow classmate injured themselves on the playground, or fear - she felt 'nothing.' 

Memories of her childhood were vague - except for the times she punched one classmate and stabbed another with a pencil.